Invitation to the Mathematics of Fermat-Wiles
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: September 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780123392510
Subjects: Algebraic number theory; Mathematics; Science/Mathematics; Number Theory; Mathematics / Number Theory; Forms, Modular; Curves, Elliptic; Fermat's last theorem
First sentence: The goal of this book is to give a brief description of the steps leading to the solution of a problem which was first raised by Pierre de Fermat in the margin of his copy of Bachet de Meziriac's translation of Diophantus' Arithmetica.